After An EXPENSIVE Trip To The Ford Dealer My FREE Focus Is FIXED

"Did Honda, build this sunroof"?!! LOL

In answer to your question "Why are Ford still making that part for a 2007 Focus?" It's probably because MOST of Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand the Far East, the Indian sub continent and Asia still drive manual cars and THAT particular manual gearbox is probably still being made and fitted to stick shift Ford's to this day. It's just an oddity in North America. There are quite literally millions of manual Ford Focus cars all over the world. That would also explain why it's been revised over the years ( to fit more modern gearboxes).

I was the original owner of a 2009 Focus Titanium. I sold it with 175,000 miles to a friend's son, who drove it for years without any issues other than wear items and maintenance. Sadly, he hit a deer on the highway, which totaled the vehicle.

My sister bought a brand new focus in 2009 and still has it to this day. It has just under 70,000 original miles.

Manual transmissions are very common in Europe. It seems likely the part is recently manufactured because the transmission is still being used on current vehicle(s).

Gabe is always hilarious

Those tires sound like Desert Duelers.

I had an 05 Focus Ghia here in Aus, sedan made in South Africa that I bought in ‘11 with 20 thousand kilometres (12 thousand miles) basically brand new, with climate control Ac, high end sound system with sub woofer , cream leather power seats and 4 speed automatic transmission, cruise control, abs brake system (no esp) 4 air bags and 16 inch alloy wheels with 205/50 tyres, it was $30k new and I got it for $15k and the dealer gave me a cheque trading in my Territory Ghia SUV with 150k km on it, best steering of any vehicle bar none, handling was superb, they were all noisy and I considered putting in a heap of sound deadening to quiet it down but traded it in on my turbo Falcon 3 years later

7:53 Rich has entered the chat

I‘d love to see a full tune up and a detail of the car. This grey plastic needs to be all black again. Looking forward to that! Great series 👍 Cheers mate

I’m really happy you’re saving this. It seems like such a great car that was so loved by its prior owners.

Wow! I never realized that the US spec Focus MK1 has a different dashboard than the Focus MK1 EU spec 😮

I got some Bob Ross vibes when JR was painting the gasket on.

Thanks for the Gabe humor. Loved those Focus hatchbacks. I had my 03 for 10 years without a single drive train breakdown. Had bought it used at the end of 04. Loved it and was sad to see it go. Turned out that 8 years of Ontario salty roads did create a rust issue. The next owner retired it at 15 years of age due to chassis and suspension rust.

Watching the latest video when I should be sleeping, thanks JR😴

wow we really did get the life changing chance to watch jr go what a descriptive and accurate channel name 🧐

Can't wait for the engine detailing video! 😊

My nana's 2006 Volvo had the EXACT same sunroof. Underneath they're both the same car 😂

Eager to see it all finished out.

@16:16 —does it need a motor mount(s)? —probably the reason the shifter is so readily available/still manufactured is because people race those cars still. —the battery has at least one bad cell, that’s why the gauge cluster needles are fidgeting. Replace that battery even though it’s working! It’ll save you a possible headache with selling it. My ‘04 F-150 did the same thing and I finally replaced the battery after months of trying to figure out the issue. I didn’t want to spend the money but when it came to that sweet point of enough cells failing, even though I was reading and the store was reading enough voltage, o’reillys tester said it had bad cells. Replacing it, fixed that. And of course it started stronger.